The Polyphonic World of Cervantes and Dostoevsky

ISBN-13: 9783330067738 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 148 str.

Slav Gratchev

Opis

This book is the first scholarly attempt to examine Don Quixote from the angle of dialogism and polyphony. To begin with, although Mikhail Bakhtin considered Dostoevsky the "creator of a polyphonic novel," we believe that the first elements of polyphony can be observed in Cervantes' Don Quixote. A preliminary objective will therefore be to articulate, without reducing the role of Dostoevsky in the creation of the polyphonic novel and relying on Bakhtin's interpretation of polyphony, heteroglossia, and multivoicedness, that the polyphonic structure appeared and evolved to a state of relative maturity centuries before Dostoevsky. The book will subsequently explore how and why the polyphonic structure was born within the classic monophonic structure of Don Quixote, the ways in which this new structure positioned itself in relation to the classic monophonic one, and what relations it may be said to have established with it resulting in a unique amalgam-the hybrid semi-polyphonic novel. An overarching concern throughout the project will be to trace Cervantes' search for new and more sophisticated expressive possibilities that the old, monophonic narration could not offer, while also she

O autorze

Dr. Slav N. Gratchev is Associate Professor of Spanish at Marshall University, USA. He is an author of many articles about Miguel de Cervantes and Mikhail Bakhtin; he is also an Editor (together with Howard Mancing) of multi-author volume Don Quixote: The Re-accentuation of the World's Greatest Literary Hero.